From the New World: Recent Episodes
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Find Lumpenspace:
https://x.com/lumpenspace
Mentioned in the episode:
https://github.com/lumpenspace/raft
https://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-Johnstone/dp/0878301178
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
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Find Richard:
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https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics/dp/0063237210
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S
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Curtis Yarvin is the author of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror.
Hear Curtis speak on building political momentum, the Performative Right, the Trump Everything App, modern-day Manhattan Projects, the good and bad of automation, the Chinese trade strategy, and what lessons AI research can take from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
These episodes were recorded over the course of 2022 and 2023. I took them down during my time in DC, but they have been among the most requested episodes to be brought back.
Find the author:
https://x.com/curtis_yarvin
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Yuri Bezmenov is the author of the Yuri Bezmenov Substack.
Find Yuri:
https://x.com/yuribezmenov22
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/the-natalism-conference
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/why-i-am-not-a-pronatalist
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Nathan Pinkoski is a writer at Compact and First Things.
Find Nathan:
https://x.com/NPinkoski
https://firstthings.com/archive/?_author=nathan-pinkoski
Mentioned in the episode:
https://firstthings.com/actually-existing-postliberalism/
https://firstthings.com/spiritual-death-of-the-west/
https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon/
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/whole-society-american-politics
https://www.amazon.com/Catholicism-Christ-Common-Destiny-Man/dp/0898702038
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This episode was originally published on December 23rd, 2024.
James Pogue is contributing editor at Harper's magazine, a contributing writer at the New York Times, and the author of Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West.Find James:
https://x.com/jhensonpogue
https://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Country-Rebellion-James-Pogue/dp/1250169127
Mentioned in the episode:
James’ profile of Senator Chris Murphy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/chris-murphy-democrats.html
James on Bannon, the New Right, and Nato: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-nato-world-order
James on the New Right: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
Martyrmade on inner city conflict: https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/whose-america
Dr. Jonathan Askonas on From the New World: https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-propaganda-to-the-end
Benjamin Teitelbaum on From the New World, discussing Bannon and Traditionalism:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/benjamin-teitelbaum-the-civil-war
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Geoff Shullenberger is managing editor of Compact and co-host of the Blame Theory podcast.
Find Geoff:
https://x.com/g_shullenberger
https://www.compactmag.com/contributor/geoff-shullenberger/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Paranoia-Conspiracy-Theory/dp/0062135554
https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Biopolitics-Lectures-Coll%C3%A8ge-1978-1979/dp/0312203411
http://home.lu.lv/~ruben/Deleuze%20-%20Postscript%20On%20The%20Societies%20Of%20Control.pdf
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Anjney Midha is a GP at Andreessen Horowitz and an early investor in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and many other AI companies.
Find Anjney:
https://x.com/AnjneyMidha
https://a16z.com/author/anjney-midha/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/take-jd-vances-ai-speech-literally
https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls
https://lmarena.ai/
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Kevin Dolan is the founder of Exit Group and the organizer of the Natalism Conference.
Find Kevin:
https://www.natalism.org/
https://x.com/extradeadjcb
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Snakes-Rest-Learned-Fight/dp/019026568X
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-and-malcolm-collins-god-and
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Mark Lutter is the founder and executive director of the Charter Cities Institute.
Find Mark:
https://x.com/MarkLutter
https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/17/build-the-presidio-freedom-city/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-auchincloss.html
https://zanzalu.org/
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Find Alex:
https://x.com/alexpriou
https://www.amazon.com/Musings-Platos-Symposium-Alex-Priou/dp/1895131677
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.mobilistiek.nl/assets/junger-total-mobilization-doc.pdf
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760945/the-technological-republic-by-alexander-c-karp-and-nicholas-w-zamiska/
https://firstthings.com/baps-confusions/
https://www.amazon.com/Selective-Breeding-Philosophy-Costin-Alamariu/dp/B0CJ3ZDHF6
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Henry Oliver is the author of The Common Reader newsletter and Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life.
Find Henry:
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Act-Bloomers-Success-Reinventing/dp/1399813315
https://x.com/HenryEOliver
Mentioned in the episode:
https://medicine-opera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/D-e-Quincy-On-the-Knocking-at-the-Gate.pdf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Voltaire/Volume_36/The_Temple_of_Taste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Crown_(TV_series)
https://www.amazon.com/Deceit-Desire-Novel-Literary-Structure/dp/0801818303
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Lomez, also known as Jonathan Keeperman, is the founder of Passage Press.
Find Lomez:
https://passage.press/
https://x.com/L0m3z
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Machiavellians-Defenders-Freedom-James-Burnham/dp/1470889269
https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaims-covid-19-origins-debate-results/
https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2013/09/ecohealth-alliance-announces-new-award-from-usaid-to-combat-disease-emergence-and-climate-change-in-asia
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/james-pogue-nature-strife-and-american
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/classic-episode-curtis-yarvin-summoning
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Richard Hanania is the author of the Richard Hanania Newsletter, the Origins of Woke, and Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy.
Find Richard:
https://x.com/RichardHanania
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics/dp/0063237210
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Future-Flourishing-Requires-Gas-Not/dp/0593420411
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Find Richard:
https://x.com/richardhanania/
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics/dp/0063237210
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/deepseek-v3-and-r1
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/martin-casado-ai-hard-limits
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jeffrey-ding-defeat-china-ai-diffusion
https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Rise-Great-Powers-International/dp/0691260346
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/
https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/The%20Simple%20Macroeconomics%20of%20AI.pdf
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Chris Best is the CEO and co-founder of Substack.
Find Chris:
https://x.com/cjgbest
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/See-Satan-Fall-Like-Lightning/dp/1570753199
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Dean Ball is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a non-resident fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, and the author of the Hyperdimensional Substack.Find Dean:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/dean-ball-ai-is-already-highly-regulated
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-08/biden-to-further-limit-nvidia-amd-ai-chip-exports-in-final-push
https://semianalysis.com/2025/01/15/2025-ai-diffusion-export-controls-microsoft-regulatory-capture-oracle-tears/
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jeffrey-ding-defeat-china-ai-diffusion
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/american-sovereignty-is-back
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Find Mike:
https://www.piratewires.com
https://x.com/micsolana
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
https://www.piratewires.com/p/revolution-of-the-broletariat
https://www.piratewires.com/p/peter-thiel-the-diversity-myth-a
https://www.piratewires.com/p/tether-part-i
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
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Find James:
https://x.com/jhensonpogue
https://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Country-Rebellion-James-Pogue/dp/1250169127
Mentioned in the episode:
James on Chris Murphy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/chris-murphy-democrats.html
James on Bannon, the New Right, and Nato: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-nato-world-order
James on the New Right: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
James with Marshall Kosloff :
Martyrmade on inner city conflict: https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/whose-america
Dr. Jonathan Askonas on From the New World: https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-propaganda-to-the-end
Benjamin Teitelbaum on From the New World, discussing Bannon and Traditionalism:
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Find Jon:
https://x.com/JonAskonas
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem
Mentioned in the episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men
https://www.amazon.com/Battling-End-Conversations-Beno%C3%AEt-Chantre/dp/0870138774
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/for-whom-shall-we-build
https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-win-condition/
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
https://passage.press/products/xenosystems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/bonus-episode-jon-askonas-on-alternate
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Find Marc:
https://a16z.com/
https://twitter.com/pmarca
Mentioned on the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/economists-vs-eas-2
https://www.amazon.ca/True-Believer-Thoughts-Nature-Movements/dp/0060505915
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262630184/men-machines-and-modern-times/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23794855/anthropic-ai-openai-claude-2
https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalist-Realism-There-No-Alternative/dp/1846943175
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/324-debating-the-future-of-ai
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Find Eugenia:
https://replika.com/
https://x.com/ekuyda
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Person-Therapists-View-Psychotherapy/dp/039575531X
https://www.amazon.com/Most-Human-Talking-Computers-Teaches-ebook/dp/B004FEG2S6
https://www.amazon.com/Innovations-Psychosocial-Interventions-Their-Delivery/dp/0190463287
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Find Jeffrey Ding:
https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Rise-Great-Powers-International/dp/0691260346
https://jeffreyjding.github.io/
https://x.com/jjding99
Mentioned in the episode:
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-cybersecurity-regulations-what-do-the-new-regulations-say/
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Find Ben:
https://x.com/benteitel
War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right https://www.amazon.com/War-Eternity-Return-Traditionalism-Populist/dp/0141992034
Mentioned in the episode:
Ben’s article about Bannon:https://www.compactmag.com/article/steve-bannons-spiritual-exile/
Peter Thiel Oxford Union Speech:
Marc Andreessen Interview about Deadwood (with Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson):
The Individualists:
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/matt-zwolinski-and-john-tomasi-on-the-individualists
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Find Todd:
https://progresschamber.org/team/todd-oboyle/
https://x.com/ttoboyle
https://progresschamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Democratic-Cost-of-Living-Agenda-CHOP.pdf
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.affuture.org/research/7-preemption/
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/377170/kamala-harris-economic-policy-new-progressive-economics
https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/ai-and-public-health-part-3-how-ai-can-revolutionize-drug-discovery/
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Find Oliver:
https://x.com/og_giesecke
https://www.olivergiesecke.com/
og25@stanford.edu
Mentioned in the episode:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4736003
https://papers.olivergiesecke.com/AISurveySlides.pdf
https://www.recodingamerica.us/
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/beyang-liu-machine-learning-that
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Find Michael:
https://x.com/M_Millerman
https://millermanschool.com/
Mentioned in the show:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo49994271.html
https://scholars-stage.org/the-silicon-valley-canon-on-the-paideia-of-the-american-tech-elite/
https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Quantity-Signs-Times/dp/0900588675
https://www.amazon.com/Strauss-Plato-Nietzsche-Philosophy-Lectures/dp/1589881907
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Find Ari and Jon:
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/ari-schulmanhttps://x.com/arischulmanhttps://x.com/jonaskonas
Mentioned in the Episode:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/opinion/ivf-debate.html
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/open-wallets-empty-hearts
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/who-is-the-new-atlantis-for
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-paradox-of-conservative-bioethics
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/for-whom-shall-we-build
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/welcoming-our-new-robot-overlords
https://x.com/xenocosmography/status/1843120642402767069
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Find Noah Smith:
https://x.com/Noahpinion
From the New World Dinner:
https://lu.ma/cn34w8dd
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Burning-Entrepreneurs-Electronic/dp/0465091180
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/
https://www.amazon.com/How-Asia-Works-Joe-Studwell/dp/0802121322
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29126/w29126.pdf
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[Interview republished in the main section so that it appears on the regular podcast feed]Find Tyler:
https://marginalrevolution.com/
https://x.com/tylercowen
Find me:
AI Meetup / SB 1047 is Over Party:https://lu.ma/sa5q2tko
Alliance for the Future: https://www.affuture.org/donate/
https://x.com/psychosort
Mentioned in the episode:
Chuck Schumer report
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Roadmap_Electronic1.32pm.pdf
AI Safety is dead:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-21/ai-safety-is-dead-and-chuck-schumer-faces-risks
Pelosi on SB 1047:
https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-opposition-california-senate-bill-1047
SB 1047 Timeline:https://reason.com/2024/08/16/california-lawmakers-face-backlash-over-doomsday-driven-ai-bill
GOAT book
https://goatgreatesteconomistofalltime.ai/en
CSIS Report on Open Source and Defense:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/defense-priorities-open-source-ai-debate
Change in vibes post:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/the-changes-in-vibes-why-did-they-happen.html
Elites:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/09/a-simple-theory-of-which-thinkers-support-the-elites-or-not.html
Noah US State Capacity:
The Art of Power:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Art-of-Power/Nancy-Pelosi/9781668048047
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Find Eric:
https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg
https://www.turpentine.co/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/
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Timestamps:
1:57 Interview starts / Will there be an AI monopoly?
5:33 The Bitter Lesson
19:30 Government AI Scaling Projects
25:09 AI Agents Versus Information Theory
34:25 Little Tech and Politics
Find Martin:
https://a16z.com/author/martin-casado/
https://x.com/martin_casado
Mentioned in the Episode:
William Perry and Martin’s course at Stanford: https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/slides/msande91si_course_information.pdf
US Senate AI Roadmap: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018f-79a9-d62d-ab9f-f9af975d0000
Entropy bounds in Information Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
Martin and Ion Stoica on Little Tech and Open Source: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/07/29/keep-the-code-behind-ai-open-say-two-entrepreneurs
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Find Beyang:
https://x.com/beyang
https://sourcegraph.com/
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Find Max:
https://arenamag.com/
https://x.com/mualphaxi
Mentioned in the episode:
https://arenamag.com/2024/06/03/ai-monopolies-not-so-fast/
https://arenamag.com/2024/07/31/the-tinkerers-box-of-dreams/
https://arenamag.com/2024/06/05/the-dream-of-speed/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12149389/robert-noyce-tom-wolfe/
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril
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Isaac Simpson is a former copywriter, writer at the American Mind, and author of The Carousel newsletter.
Find Isaac:
https://x.com/DisgracedProp
Mentioned in the episode:
https://americanmind.org/features/a-matter-of-taste/politics-is-not-downstream-from-culture/
https://americanmind.org/features/a-matter-of-taste/
https://americanmind.org/features/a-matter-of-taste/tv-is-always-progressive/
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Revolution-What-Happening-World/dp/1839013184
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Screen-Trade-Hollywood-Screenwriting/dp/0446391174
https://savethecat.com/
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Find Jeremy:
https://www.amazon.com/Unprotected-Class-Anti-White-Destroying-America/dp/1684514584https://twitter.com/realJeremyCarlhttps://www.claremont.org/bio/jeremy-carl/Mentioned in the podcast:
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Find Matt:
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Find Dean:
https://twitter.com/deanwball
https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/dean-ball
Alliance for the Future:
https://www.affuture.org/contact/
Email me:
chau [at] affuture [dot] org
Mentioned in the show:
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/how-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1649143110331510785
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Find Jeremy:
https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Hierarchy-Forest-Evolution-Egalitarian-Behavior/dp/0674006917
https://thenetworkstate.com/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167210366854
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/rob-henderson-social-problems-need
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/razib-khan-genetic-founding-crimes
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Find Simone and Malcolm:
https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins
https://pronatalist.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@SimoneandMalcolm
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Crafting-Religion-Demographic/dp/B0BSJ5SXK2
Mentioned in the episode:
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Perry Metzger is the co-founder and chairman of the board of Alliance for the Future. Perry is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and consultant. He is the current founder and CEO of a stealth AI startup.
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Saagar Enjeti is the co-host and co-founder of Breaking Points.
Find Saagar:
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://twitter.com/esaagar
Alliance for the Future:
https://www.affuture.org/donate/
https://www.affuture.org/contact/
https://twitter.com/psychosort/
Mentioned in the Episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Therapy-Kids-Arent-Growing-ebook/dp/B0CBYHTV2D
https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Senate-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0394720954
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Find Anatoly:
https://twitter.com/powerfultakes
Mentioned in the episode:
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Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of many books, including “You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism“.
Find Bryan:
https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.ca/Good-Mood-Psychology-Overcoming-Depression/dp/0812690982
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674707580
https://www.amazon.ca/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8B
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Find Roko on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/
Mentioned in the Episode:
AI is Easy to Control - Nora Belrose
From the New World / Samo Burja
From the New World / Roko Mijic (First Episode)
We Need a Manhattan Project for AI Safety - Sam Hammond
Timestamps:
0:00 Putin alignment38:00 the internet as fossil fuel56:00 civilizational collapse1:10:00 government alignment failure
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Find Sam:
https://twitter.com/hamandcheese
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/marc-andreesen-the-time-to-fight#details
https://thenetworkstate.com/
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James Pethokoukis is the author of The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Find James:
https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis
https://www.amazon.ca/Conservative-Futurist-Create-Sci-Fi-Promised/dp/1546005544
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/marc-andreesen-the-time-to-fight#details
https://www.amazon.ca/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy-Adulthood/dp/1501151983
https://www.amazon.ca/Two-Parent-Privilege-Americans-Stopped-Getting/dp/0226817784
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Find Marc Andreessen:
https://a16z.com/
https://twitter.com/pmarca
Mentioned on the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/economists-vs-eas-2
https://www.amazon.ca/True-Believer-Thoughts-Nature-Movements/dp/0060505915
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262630184/men-machines-and-modern-times/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23794855/anthropic-ai-openai-claude-2
https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalist-Realism-There-No-Alternative/dp/1846943175
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/324-debating-the-future-of-ai
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Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.
Jon Askonas:
https://twitter.com/JonAskonas
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas
Jon’s articles mentioned:
https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker
Mentioned in the episode:
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city
https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods
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Find James:
https://twitter.com/jamespoulos
Mentioned in the episode:
https://humanforever.us/
https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Being-Free-Tocqueville-Ourselves/dp/1250077184
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Find Thaddeus:
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/
https://twitter.com/ThaddeusRussell
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jacob-siegel-social-media-censorship#details
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/202
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/data-driven-defeat-information-versus-interests-in-afghanistan/
https://www.amazon.ca/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy-Adulthood/dp/1501151983
https://www.thecoddling.com/
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Find Jonah:
https://twitter.com/jonahdavids1
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.ca/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy-Adulthood/dp/1501151983
https://www.amazon.com/Generations-Differences-Millennials-Silents_and-Americas/dp/1982181613/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1692303420&refinements=p_27%3AJean+Twenge&s=books&sr=1-1
https://twitter.com/psychosort/status/1684407652523155456?s=20
Timestamps:
01:15 Toronto
39:00 Mental Illness
1:29:00 Loneliness and Economic Models
1:51:00 Therapeutic Culture
2:08:00 Social Anxiety
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Razib Khan is a geneticist, host of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, and writer of an excellent newsletter.
Find Razib:
https://twitter.com/razibkhan
Mentioned in the episode:
https://thenetworkstate.com/microhistory-and-macrohistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)
Timestamps:
0:00 Anons
14:00 Genetic Crimes
57:00 Genomic Models
1:12:00 Strauss
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Joshua Steinman is a former Director of Cyber and Deputy Assistant to the President in the National Security Council. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick.
Find Joshua Steinman:
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman
https://www.galvanick.com/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
https://www.galvanick.com/post/galvanick-announces-10-million-in-seed-funding-for-its-industrial-cybersecurity-platform
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/data-driven-defeat-information-versus-interests-in-afghanistan/
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/North-American-Electric-Reliability-Corporation-Critical-Infrastructure-Protection-NERC-CIP
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Matthew Archer is the Editor-in-Chief of Aporia, a social science substack devoted to exploring controversial and important ideas in a fair & rigorous manner. Bo Winegard is the Executive Editor of Aporia and an independent scholar. He has a PhD in social psychology.
Find Aporia:
https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine
https://twitter.com/EPoe187
Mentioned in the episode:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1659910385141686273?s=20
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/richard-hanania-returns-how-status#details
https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine/status/1671217007650390017
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438
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Find Sam:
https://americanmind.org/features/the-exterior-darkness/whos-on-the-other-end-of-the-chatbot/
https://www.bionicmarketing.io/
https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality
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Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Find Noah:
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html
https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/
https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813
https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/
https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradfor
https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630
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Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter.
Find Richard:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S
https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.html
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement
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Lyman Stone is a Demographer and Writer, focusing on the issues of pronatalism, family, and religion.
Find Lyman:
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky
https://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/home
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipe
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#details
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-blueshift#details
https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Control-American-Modernity-History/dp/1316519589
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Jacob Siegel is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. He is also the author of the landmark article “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century”.
Find Jacob:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
https://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegel
https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-siegel
https://manifesto.fireside.fm/
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jacob-siegel-a-friendly-quarrel-in
Mentioned on the Episode:
https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details
https://americanmind.org/memo/black-boxing-democracy/
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact
https://www.amazon.ca/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed
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Curtis Yarvin is the writer of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror.
Find Curtis:
https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-summoning-the-best#details
https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-what-lies-upstream#details
Mentioned on the episode:
https://cactus.substack.com/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
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Byne Hobart is the writer of The Diff. He is an exceptional writer on finance and a wide collection of other topics. We discuss anecdotes, organizational theory, OpenAI, democracy, boom-bust cycles, and crystallized knowledge, among other topics.
Find Byrne:
https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart
Mentioned on the show:
https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificial
https://mlzeng.com/an-interesting-equation.html
https://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296
https://www.amazon.ca/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358250412
https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/
https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam/dp/0688048382
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Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Bet On It newsletter and many books, including Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrational.
Find Bryan Caplan (and buy his books):
https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
https://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8B
https://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politicians-Demagoguery/dp/B09YQGKBXH
https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088
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Curtis Yarvin is the writer of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror. We discuss abortion, resentment, soft power, Desantis, social scenes, missionaries, and machine learning.
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Mentioned on the show:
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Eric Torenberg is the founder of Village Global, Ondeck, and the first employee of Product Hunt. We discuss tech, silicon valley as a media power, public impact, social desirability, egalitarianism, and dating advice for young founders.
Find Eric:
https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg
Mentioned in the episode:
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/
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Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch.
Find Brett:
https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersen
Mentioned in the show:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major
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Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.
Jon Askonas:
https://twitter.com/JonAskonas
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas
Jon’s articles mentioned:
https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker
Mentioned in the episode:
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city
https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods
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Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game https://emergentstcg.com.
We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.
0:00 MTG
19:00 chess, computability, and learning
36:30 COVID projections
49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes
57:15 narrative hedging
1:14:05 selection vs. malleability
1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine
1:55:00 institution building
2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition
2:13:30 were we in a golden age?
2:15:30 decivilization
2:18:50 economies of scale
3:03:00 chaos and order
3:14:05 pure math
Zvi’s Blog:
http://thezvi.wordpress.com/
Zvi on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TheZvi
Episode with Samo Burja:
Episode with Robin Hanson:
CDC banning COVID tests:
https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve
Moral Mazes book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883
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Simone Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and co-author of the Pragmatist’s Guide series.
Find Simone:
https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG
https://pronatalist.org/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-Paradox
Timestamps:
0:00 Evolutionary Mismatch8:30 Transmaxxing13:00 The Sacred31:00 Social Justice46:00 Pronatalism1:10:30 Parasocial Relationships1:28:30 Self-Deception2:01:00 Post-Irony2:29:30 “Wokeness” as a Term2:56:00 Incels
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Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter.
Find Dwarkesh:
https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
Mentioned in the show:
https://www.americanmoment.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note
Timestamps:
0:00 zoomers
8:00 childhood
15:00 administrative state
25:00 prodigies
35:00 art and digitization
53:00 Economic progress
56:00 Talent
1:19:00 Curtis Yarvin
1:32:00 Podcasting
1:47:00 Effective Altruism
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Mentioned in the episode:
https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/10/31/on-the-fragility-of-the-current-regime/
https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/08/13/my-advice-to-the-young/
Timestamps:
0:00 Dating Advice10:00 Testosterone18:00 Virtualization34:00 Fracture vs. Collapse1:07:00 Technology and Conservatism1:23:00 Power is always a means to an end1:43:00 The future regime2:06:00 Hobbits and Elves
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I’m crossposting this episode from the Moment of Zen podcast, a tech podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Dan Romero. In it I discuss ChatGPT, machine learning, pluralism, and regime politics. This was one of the most enjoyable podcast appearances for me so far.
Timestamps:
(1:00) Why is ChatGPT woke? (6:23) DAN (do anything now) (12:20) Who cares if chatGPT is a little woke?(16:00) OpenAI is just protecting themselves (23:00) Why is it so bad that chatGPT is a little woke? (27:00) Why not compete with openAI directly? (33:00) Why pluralism instead of truthism? (40:00) How can pluralism win? (42:00) Polarization is good (51:00) The arc of technology is centralization (1:12:30) Reconciling contradictions (1:21:40) Explaining The Cathedral (1:32:00) Why politics matters for tech
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Roko Mijic is a rationalist, writer of the Heretical Update newsletter, and the inventor of “Roko’s Basilisk”.
Roko’s Links:
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https://twitter.com/RokoMijic
Mentioned in the episode:
https://spandrell.com/2018/01/21/leninism-and-bioleninism/
https://www.thegpttimes.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 Rationality
21:30 Signalling
42:00 Lockdowns
57:30 Selection Effects
1:09:00 Feminism and Housing
2:09:00 Crypto
2:51:00 Elite Theory
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Due to some hardware failure, I’m not able to access recordings at the moment. Consequently, this is a good moment to share an episode which both myself and the audience place among the best. It is also one that is surprisingly relevant to current events, for a podcast recorded over half a year ago.
Curtis Yarvin is the founding of Urbit, former writer of Unqualified Reservations and now writes at Gray Mirror:
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Rob Henderson is a writer of an excellent Substack, a founding faculty of UATX, and a recent recipient of a psychology PhD. We discuss the evolution of media, the “policy left”, noblesse oblige, the Tripartite War, the meaning crisis, Eric Berne, and transactional analysis.
Timestamps:
0:00 Media12:00 Tiktok22:00 “Policy left”33:00 Elites and Status Competition52:00 Noblesse Oblige58:00 Parallel Status Hierarchies1:07:00 Tripartite War1:42:00 Meaning vs. Pleasure1:55:00 Eric Berne and Transactional Analysis2:39:00 Chaos and Order
Rob on Substack:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/robkhenderson
Pieces Mentioned:
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Malcolm Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and the Collins Institute, along with his wife Simone. We discuss Cultural Evolution, Puritans, Wokeness, Psychiatry, Effective Alutrism, Pronatalism, Gene Editing, Trads, Eschatology, and Good and Evil.
Timestamps:
0:00 Western Civilization4:00 Memes21:00 Hicksite Quakers28:30 Psychiatry37:30 Fashion50:00 Effective Altruism57:00 Gene-Culture Coevolution102:00 Depopulation1:33:00 Trads1:55:00 Eschatology2:11:00 Historical Direction2:32:00 Good and Evil3:07:00 Autism3:12:00 Order and Chaos
Malcolm and Simone on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins
pronatalist.org
https://collinsinstitute.org/
Pieces mentioned:
The Pragmatist Guide Series by Simone and Malcolm Collins:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn
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Greg Guevara, or “Jreg”, is a satirist and post-ironic former candidate for mayor of Ottawa.
Jreg on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGSGPehp0RWfca-kENgBJ9Q
Centricide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTFiTqe1sng&list=PLGALsgF3LJjxcs7Hc9aPZwPqd1toJbcrJ
Jreg on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mc_swm
My Conversation with Sam Hammond:
My Conversation with Curtis Yarvin:
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Samuel Hammond is the director of social policy at the Niskanen center and the author of the Second Best newsletter. We discuss religion, Peter Thiel, artificial intelligence, critical theory, industrial policy, Georgism, resource scarcity, bureaucracy, prisoner’s dilemmas, care work, and Canada.
https://secondbest.ca/
Samuel at Niskanen:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/samuel-hammond/
Samuel on AI:
Samuel on Mormons:
From the New World Episode with Richard Hanania:
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Last week I brought you my favorite episode from the archives, with Samo Burja. I asked on twitter for my audience’s favorite episode and unsurprisingly it is this one. There’s no doubt that part of this is because Tyler is the most well-known guest on this podcast. But listening to the episode in hindsight, my impression of it is better than it was before. It remains true that I didn’t have the time to ask many questions I was interested in (I have whole sections of prep labelled “Georgism”, “economics^2“, “global hierarchies“ that were left untouched, and there was much more on immigrant subcommunities). Nonetheless, it seems to be like my podcast contained much novelty on an avenue of the Tyler Cowen thought, at least in public, and preceeded some popular marginal revolution posts, such as https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/classical-liberalism-vs-the-new-right.html.
Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, self-deception, and corporate hiring.
Marginal Revolution
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814
From the New World Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:
From the New World Episode with Robin Hanson:
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This remains my favorite episode, despite Samo’s squeaky chair and some audio misses. We discuss ideas that have made a profound impact on my thinking, such as narrative hedging, the Bismarckian compromise, and energy leaps. This may sound like it was recorded last week with the insightful observations on energy and geopolitical conflict, but it was actually recorded nearly a year ago, at the end of April, and releasing in the middle of May.
Samo Burja is the founder and president of the consulting company Bismarck Analysis, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute. He is also the writer of the Bismarck Brief newsletter, linked below.
In this podcast, we discuss the life of Otto Von Bismarck, the political economy of institutions, narratives as a hedge against failure, the coming energy transition, differences between Europe and America, regulation as vengeance, live players, Elon Musk, and the global financial system.Bismarck Analysis:
https://www.bismarckanalysis.com/#/
Bismarck Brief:
Samo Burja on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SamoBurja
The Costs of European “Privacy” Regulation:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30028
EU Artificial Intelligence law:https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/13/1052223/guide-ai-act-europe/
Great founder theory:
https://samoburja.com/great-founder-theory/
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Richard Hanania’s substack
A Psychological Theory of the Culture War
On DeSantis
Reagan and Civil Rights Law
His first time on FTNW:
Bryan Caplan on FTNW:
Michelle Goldberg on Trump and Mental Illness
https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/09/trump-induced-anxiety-is-a-real-thing.html
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Michael Gibson is a venture capitalist and author of Paper Belt on Fire.
Paper Belt on Fire:https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress/dp/164177245X
Bryan Caplan — The Case Against Education:https://www.amazon.ca/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652
Bryan Caplan on FTNW:
Timestamps:
0:00 Scenes
22:00 Rationalism
38:00 Conservatism
57:00 Thiel Fellowship
1:49:00 Science Fiction
2:00:00 Order and Chaos
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Angel on Twitter Moderation:https://quillette.com/2022/11/23/twitter-is-not-the-town-square/
Angel Eduardo and Curtis Yarvin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkLhtTT1vnQ
Geoff Shullenberger on Popularism:https://compactmag.com/article/the-death-of-popularism
Tom Leung and his brother:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSomJ8Ls87G9Ct0c4m-tKM47wuI2pwRNA
More in Common Report:https://www.moreincommon.com/
FIRE Surveys:https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/student-surveys
Timestamps:
0:00 Free Speech41:00 Trump53:30 Partisanship1:09:30 Starmanning1:34:00 Suicide2:02:30 Urgency2:22:00 Twitter2:28:00 Media Incentives
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Freddie deBoer is a writer and the author of The Cult of Smart.
The Incoherence and Cruelty of Mental Illness as Meme — Freddie deBoer:
Freddie deBoer’s first appearance on FTNW:
The Cult of Smart:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250224491/thecultofsmartTimestamps:
0:00 Class Analysis10:30 Mental Illness43:00 Internet Incentives1:28:00 McLuhan1:41:00 Elite Competition
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Garett Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of several books: Hive Mind, 10% Less Democracy, and his latest book: The Culture Transplant.
Buy The Culture Transplant:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35594
Garett’s other books:
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23082
My Interview With Tyler Cowen:
Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-matthew-yglesias.html
Timestamps:
0:00 Democracy33:00 Libertarianism37:00 Singapore43:00 Intelligence1:10:10 State Capacity1:18:30 Immigration and Culture1:41:00 Diversity1:50:00 Public Trust2:00:00 Populism and Shorism
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Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of many books, including Why People Believe Weird Things, the Moral Arc, and most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
Conspiracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Conspiracy-Why-Rational-Believe-Irrational/dp/1421444453
Richard Hanania Interview:
Jon Askonas: Reality is Just a Game Now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
0:00 History
6:30 Conspiracy Theories
24:00 Religious Sects
41:00 Evolutionary Adaptation
57:30 Social Media Algorithms
1:13:30 Sex Differences
1:17:00 Trump
1:31:00 Pandemics
1:36:00 Deep State
1:51:00 Lab Leak
1:59:00 The Intellectual Dark Web
2:10:00 Academia
2:28:00 Chaos and Order
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Richard Bruns is an economist who worked on cost-benefit for the FDA and now works at a biosecurity organization funded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation.
Tyler Cowen on From the New World
Zvi Mowshowitz on FTNW:
Scott Alexander on the FDA
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In which we discuss:Effective Altruism
Psychopathy
Machine Learning
Philosophy of Science
Neuroticism
Free Speech
Catholic Integralists
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Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:00 Order and Chaos
Round 1:
Robin Hanson and Agnes Callard on Autodidacts:
https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/autodidact
Robin Hanson Debates Curtis Yarvin:
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Jon at the New Atlantis:
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas
Why Conservatism Failed:
https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed
Podcast with Jon and Geoff Shullenberger:
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Jonathan Rauch is the author of the Constitution of Knowledge, Kindly Inquisitors, the Happiness Curve, and much more.0:00 The Constitution of Knowledge23:30 Trump28:00 Cognitive Bias48:15 Game Theory 1:12:00 Egregores
BJ Campbell on From the New World:
Jonathan Rauch — How American Politics Went Insane:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
Atlantic Dinosaurs:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/
Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strength American Democracy:
https://www.amazon.ca/Political-Realism-Back-Room-Strengthen-Democracy-ebook/dp/B00WNCUMEW
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Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, and
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “fantasy intellectual teams”, and the administrative state.
0:00 Polarization
20:30 Never-Trump
41:00 Intellectual Honesty
1:03:00 Specialization
1:21:00 Vaccines and Innovation
1:39:20 Does specialization cause tribalism
2:24:00 Order, Chaos, and the Administrative State
In My Tribe, by Arnold Kling:
Econlog:
https://www.econlib.org/author/akling/
Specialization and Trade:
https://www.amazon.ca/Specialization-Trade-Re-introduction-Arnold-Kling-ebook/dp/B01GW3SOOM
The Three Languages of Politics:
https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political/dp/1944424466
My conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz:
My conversation with Richard Hanania:
Designing a Better Regulatory State by Arnold Kling:
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/designing-a-better-regulatory-state
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:
https://www.amazon.ca/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-America/dp/0195069056
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
https://www.amazon.ca/Special-Providence-American-Foreign-Changed/dp/0415935369
Warriors and Worriers:
https://www.amazon.ca/Warriors-Worriers-Survival-Joyce-Benenson-ebook/dp/B00HO6WT3O
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Jeremy is senior fellow at the Claremont institute, writer and builder in early silicon valley, contributor to many, many publications, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. We discuss early silicon valley, the dissident right, authoritarian regimes, rationalism, Covid policy, immigration, economies of scale, chesterton, and “Godel, Escher, Bach”.
Jeremy on Web 1.0:
https://return.life/2022/03/07/web-1-0/
Jeremy’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4
Curtis Yarvin on From the New World:
Godel Escher Bach:
https://www.amazon.ca/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567
Power of the powerless:
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23
Geoff Shullenberger and I on his podcast, Outsider Theory
Compact Endorsement of Trump:
https://compactmag.com/article/he-s-still-the-one
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Bryan Caplan is an economist and professor at George Mason University, the writer of the betonit substack and the author of many books: The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, the Case Against Education, Open Borders: the Science and Ethics of Immigration, and the newly released Don’t Be A Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice.
Bryan’s Susbtack:
Timestamps:
0:00 Feminism
30:40 Wokeness and Anti-wokeness
39:40 Social Desirability Bias
1:00:45 Private Companies
1:05:20 Rebranding Libertarianism
1:15:15 Life as a Public Intellectual
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James Pogue is a uniquely interest journalist and author of Chosen Country: a Rebellion in the West. You can find his work in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, and many more outlets.
Timestamps (You’ll need them this time):
0:00 American Mythology
17:00 Disenchantment
55:00 Truckers
1:01:00 Elite Theory
1:24:00 Forestry
1:48:00 Rights Regime
2:04:00 Social Media
2:36:00 De-Civilization
2:44:00 South Africa
3:01:00 Political Violence
4:00:00 The Deep Right
4:58:00 Ron Desantis
5:40:00 Principles
My interview with Curtis Yarvin:
Part 1 of My Series on NatCon:
Common Sense Piece on Trucker Protests
New Yorker Profile of Mark Milley:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
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Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State, the co-founder of Genomic Prediction, and write of the blog Information Processing.
Round 1 with Steve Hsu:
Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:
Information Processing: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve
Human Nature (Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612680/
Timestamps:
0:00 genomic prediction
12:20 communication, statistics and media
38:20 use of force
41:20 predicting intelligence
55:30 do progrsssives hate stats?
144:45 gene editing
2:00:00 He Jiankui
204:15 Machine Learning
218:30 Nazis in the Western memory
235:00 science fiction
240:20 chaos and order
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Eric Kaufmann is a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, a columnist at Unherd and the author of Whiteshift.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/epkaufm
Unherd:
https://unherd.com/author/eric-kaufmann/
Whiteshift:
https://www.amazon.ca/Whiteshift-Populism-Immigration-Future-Majorities/dp/1468316974
0:00 is race overrated or underrated?
13:03 leftmodernism
26:20 scapegoating
33:20 ethnic nation states
101:20 tolerance
112:20 DEI
119:50 Brexit
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My twitter: https://twitter.com/psychosort
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Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, self-deception, and corporate hiring.
Marginal Revolution
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814
From the New World Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:
https://cactus.substack.com/p/zvi-mowshowitz-how-the-worst-people
From the New World Episode with Robin Hanson:
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Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at emergents.
We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.
Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.
0:00 MTG
19:00 chess, computability, and learning
36:30 COVID projections
49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes
57:15 narrative hedging
1:14:05 selection vs. malleability
1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine
1:55:00 institution building
2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition
2:13:30 were we in a golden age?
2:15:30 decivilization
2:18:50 economies of scale
3:03:00 chaos and order
3:14:05 pure math
Zvi’s Blog:
http://thezvi.wordpress.com/
Episode with Samo Burja:
Episode with Robin Hanson:
CDC banning COVID tests:
https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve
Moral Mazes book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883
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Manny Rinconcruz is a financial historian, a member of the history working group at Standard Hoover Institution, an open source software developer buttonwood foundation (buttonwood.foundation), and the author of the thinking.farm newsletter. His views do not reflect those of his employer.
Manny’s twitter:
https://twitter.com/mrinconcruz
His newsletter:
http://thinking.farm/
Manny and Niall’s piece in the Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-infect-financial-markets-janet-yellen-terra-luna-tether-crypto-run-risk-collapse-recession-investment-dollar-stability-inflation-11655057043?mod=article_inline
My thread on populism:
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Rob’s First Episode:
His article on the University of Austin:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/25/opinion/welcome-alternative-lack-academic-freedom-college-campuses/
His substack:
Jonathan Haidt’s article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
My critiques of Haidt:
My discussion with Malcom Kyeyune:
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Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration research and director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the book “Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions”. We discuss immigration, the US legal immigration system, the immigration bureaucracy, appeals to chaos and order, libertarianism, populism, whether politics is driven by ideas or personalities, political violence, and electoral systems.
Alex at Cato:
https://www.cato.org/people/alex-nowrasteh
Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions:
https://www.amazon.ca/Wretched-Refuse-Political-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1108702457
Alex on the Fifth Column podcast:
https://play.acast.com/s/5c3e264f78c059c75c5e8ccf/607995b1b1d7373173d667fb
My Conversation with Samo Burja:
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Demetri Kofinas is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast. His insightful interviews and commentary on financial markets, commodities, supply chains, and media have been a part of my learning for several months.
The Hidden Forces podcast:
https://hiddenforces.io/
His episode with Doomberg (the most recent out of many):
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/food-shortages-energy-security-doomberg/
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Freddie Deboer is a writer on substack and a contributor to many publications. He offers a unique perspective, coming from the economic left while seeing through a range of strategic and policy failures. We discuss progressive organizations, doomerism, the politics of recognition, state capacity, patronage systems, civil rights law, housing, monarchy, mental illness, distrust of institutions, and the relationship between the Bernie left and the media.
Freddie on Substack:
Extended bio by Bari Weiss:
Ryan Grim on progressive institutions:
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/
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Malcom Kyeyune is a columnist for Compact magazine and contributor to Unherd. In this show we discuss working class politics, education gaps, caste, universalist ideologies, burnham and elite theory, decivilazation, the threat of autocracy and anarchy, curtis yarvin, civil war, historicism, and network states.
Malcom in Compact:
https://compactmag.com/columnist/malcom-kyeyune
Malcom on twitter:
https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg
Curtis Yarvin on Elves and Hobbits:
Our discussion:
A short explainer:
Podcast with Samo Burja:
The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan:
https://thenetworkstate.com/
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Bohan Lou is a colleague in the UATX summer program, a graduate of Yale University, and a product manager at Lyft. He has interests in religious studies and philosophy.
Follow Bohan on twitter: https://twitter.com/loubohan
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Nils is the VP of programs at the Bergruen institute and deputy editor of Noema magazine.
Issues and Timestamps:
0:00 right-wing policy movement
8:30 supreme court
18:54 legitimacy
29:12 right wing postmodernists
32:50 state capacity
52:00 fda and neuroticism
1:39:00 populists right vs. libertarians
153:30 aesthetic preferences
223:00 problems of power analysis
238:00 centralization vs. bureaucracy
3:00:00 politics of recognition
Relevant links:
Nils Gilman on twitter:
https://twitter.com/nils_gilman?
Noema magazine:
https://www.noemamag.com/
https://www.noemamag.com/author/nils-gilman/
Institutionalized with Aaron Sibarium, Charles Fain Lehman, Nils Gilman:
Ezra Klein and Alex Tabarrok on “Supply Side Leftism”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-alex-tabarrok.html
Ezra Klein and Patrick Deneen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-patrick-deneen.html
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A Solo Discussion of the Podcast’s Past, Motivation, and Strategy.
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Ron Unz is the founder of Wall Street Analytics, former candidate for California governor and the publisher of the Unz Review. Topics include the IDW, neo-reactionaries, Ukraine, the Maidan revolution, the military-industrial complex, the nature of lobbying, over and under generalizations, wokeness, lab leak, U.S. biodefense programs, and the possibility that COVID is one of them.
Rubio’s Senate Questioning on “Biowarfare labs”:
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/3/rubio-speaks-at-senate-foreign-relations-committee-hearing-on-putin-s-invasion-of-ukraine-condemns-talks-with-maduro
The Unz Review:
https://www.unz.com/
Ron Unz on COVID Biowarfare:
https://www.unz.com/page/covid-biowarfare-articles/
Bari Weiss on the IDW:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
The Current Thing Meme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing
Mearshimer lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
New York Times: US Intelligence Helping Kill Russian Generals:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-ukraine.html
Nicholas Wade Lab Leak Article:
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
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Doomberg the green chicken is the publisher of the Doomberg newsletter, which covers energy, finance, food, and more. They are the second ranked paid newsletter after their first month of premium launch. Their team also runs a small consulting company / think tank, which analyzes similar issues.
We discuss branding, consulting, the COVID downturn, inflation, money, rare earth metals, oil, ESG, polarization, bureaucracies, corporate America, W2 tax policies, sensationalism, PR and crisis management, propaganda, and nuclear energy.
Doomberg on Substack:
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/DoombergT
Samo Burja Podcast:
Doomberg on Cows:
Grim Diesel:
Starvation Diet:
Atlantic Anti-People:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/population-growth-housing-climate-change/629952/
BJ Campbell Egregores:
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Jacob is a senior writer for Tablet, writer of the scroll newsletter, and host of the Manifesto! Podcast with novellist Phil Klay. We discuss iconoclasm, curiosity, technology and centralization, Andrew Yang, postliberalism, Curtis Yarvin, bureaucracy, Bidenism, the secular and religious worlds, and the importance of quarrel.
This is the first of three episodes in which I find myself with much greater disagreements with my guests. You may agree with my position, or you might agree with their’s. In any case, I hope you understand and seek to learn from our exchange, whether it’s on the topics of this episode or more controversial ones. Jacob and I discuss this explicitly near the end of the episode, and find great value in speaking with each other despite our disagreements. I hope you will too. Here’s Jacob Siegel.
The Scroll:
The Manifesto! Podcast:
https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-post-liberal-politician
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BJ Campbell is the author of the Handwaving Freakoutery newsletter.
We discuss a variety of topics, including egregores, a term he uses to describe a type of online conformity behaviour, updating moralities, statistics, guns, evolutionary psychology, vaccines, wokeness, war, nationalism, political violence, January 6th, QAnon, coordiantion problems, religions in the online era, gun-prepping, the post-liberal right, Curtis Yarvin, crime rates, Shiri’s scissor, and why everything needs more chaos.
Handwaving Freakoutery:
Egregores:
The Mathematical Case for Prepping:
HWFO on Gender Gap:
Firehose of B**t:
Hanania on Fragile Wokeness:
Yascha Mounk: The Great Experiment https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665275/the-great-experiment-by-yascha-mounk/
Network Connectivity in Pizzagate:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233879
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Rob is a phD candidate at Cambridge university in moral psychology, the writer of the robkhenderson newsletter and the inventor of the term “luxury beliefs”. Topics include universities, dating markets, analyzing social situations, anxiety in Gen-z, luxury beliefs, signalling, wordcels, and informal networks.
Rob Henderson on twitter:
https://twitter.com/robkhenderson
Rob K Henderson Newsletter:
Extended Bio on Bari Weiss’ podcast:
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Samo Burja is the founder and president of the consulting company Bismarck Analysis, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute. He is also the writer of the Bismarck Brief newsletter, linked below.
In this podcast, we discuss the life of Otto Von Bismarck, the political economy of institutions, narratives as a hedge against failure, the coming energy transition, differences between Europe and America, regulation as vengeance, live players, Elon Musk, and the global financial system.
Bismarck Analysis:
https://www.bismarckanalysis.com/#/
Bismarck Brief:
Samo Burja on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SamoBurja
The Costs of European “Privacy” Regulation:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30028
EU Artificial Intelligence law:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/13/1052223/guide-ai-act-europe/
Great founder theory:
https://samoburja.com/great-founder-theory/
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Roon is a machine learning engineer, anonymous writer at roonscape.substack.com, and the inventor of the term “wordcel”. He’s an extremely insightful commentator with a similar technical background to mine - all the better for approaching the questions we’re asking today.
Topics discussed include the “wordcel and “shape rotator” meme, the decline of journalism, the conflict between legacy and new institutions, the difficulty of explaining machine learning to lay audiences, how very few people are agentic, niche communities and anonymity, the “neoreactionary” movement, accelerationism, techno-optimism, existential risk, alien life, and which problems machine learning is most likely to solve.
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Roon on twitter: https://twitter.com/tszzl
His substack:
DALL-E ML Image Generator: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
UPDATE: Timestamps
2:01 interview starts
9:28 legacy journalists
15:11 financial collapse
22:33 Elon Musk and twitter
28:44 "Hate Speech" is a fake term
39:53 Old Money vs. New Money
53:53 Technologists Becoming Disillusioned by Politics
57:01 The Neoreactionary Movement
1:06:30 Existential Risk
1:13:22 Aliens
1:18:37 Machine Learning in Simple English
1:26:54 Automation
1:38:09 Inequality
1:50:32 Gen Z
1:57:43 Why are tech journalists so incompetent?
2:05:34 Machine Learning Lightning Round
2:07:55 Central Planning
2:11:46 Machine Learning and Emotion
2:18:07 Self-Driving Cars
2:21:45 Finance
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Richard Hananis is the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy, a visiting fellow at UT Austin, and the writer of richardhanania.substack.com.
He is a brilliant analyst and policy thinker of social change, bureaucracy, civil rights law, and political institutions. We discuss those topics, five of his articles linked below, as well as how civil rights law made everything illegal, groomerism as right-wing wokeness, a foreign perspective on US foreign policy and propaganda, how activists disconnect policy from the public, the failure of expertise, the failure of “contrarians”, misuse of philosophy of science and Eric Weinstein, mental illness in Gen-Z, differences between neuroticism and feminization, and the effect of social media on policy.
This week’s audio essay is a shorter one concerning extremists as saboteurs.
Richard Hanania on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania
Richard Hanania’s substack articles:
David Shor on campaign ads:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/09/david-shor-democrats-privileged-college-kid-problem-514992
Pew Research Poll
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
Yuen Yuen Ang: China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
https://www.amazon.ca/Chinas-Gilded-Age-Economic-Corruption/dp/1108478603
My interview with Steve Hsu:
fromthenew.world
Richard’s interview with Gail Hariot:
Timestamps
2:20 Audio essay
6:42 Interview Start
8:24 Cactus' Asch Conformity Simulation
8:55 "People are Shockingly Dishonest"
10:57 Late Blooming
14:52 Foreign Policy Lying
18:19 Democracy Narratives
23:13 Tribal Beliefs
26:40 Asian Vote
28:47 Feminization
33:05 Does Social Media Benefit Democrats or Republicans?
41:56 Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV
50:45 The Ideal Conservative Strategy
54:25 Florida's School Bills
56:27 Incentive-Aligned Corruption
1:00:54 Demagogues
1:04:58 Rising Conservative Activists
1:07:03 Why Everything is Controlled By Activists (and Therefore Liberal)
1:14:26 Why are obscure right-wing people better than obscure left-wing people?
1:23:13 Moral Panics, and Why Cactus Distrusts the Right
1:25:48 Stats tests violate disparate impact
1:30:50 Is it Feminization or Neuroticism?
1:40:23 Failure of "Expertise"
1:47:02 Eric Weinstein and Philosophy of Science
1:51:05 Too Much Order, Needs More Chaos
1:53:48 Outro
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Steve Hsu is a professor of theoretical physics and professor of computational mathematics, science, and engineering at Michigan State University, as well as the former VP of Research. He was the founder of digital security companies Safeweb, acquired by Symantec, and Robot Genius, as well as genomics startups Othram and Genomic Prediction. He writes the blog Information Processing.
In this podcast, we discuss the history and politics of academia, individual differences in intelligence and athleticism, our experiences with high level mathematics, statistics as an anti-meme, the tension between merit and ideology, math education, theory of mind, differences between the Midwestern and immigrant suburb schools where Steve and I grew up, respectively, and informal networks as alternative credentials.
Steve Hsu on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve
Information Processing:
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/
On wordcels: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/02/annals-of-psychometry-wordcels-and.html
Bounded cognition (statistics and innumeracy): https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2007/10/bounded-cognition.html
Creators and Rulers: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/08/creators-and-rulers.html
Quantum GDP: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/12/quantum-gdp.html
Terman studies:
Volume 1-3: https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Studies-Genius-Vol-III/dp/B001LD3MKA
Volume 4: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1947-15005-000
Volume 5: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1959-07905-000
Wordcels and Shape Rotators:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotator-mathcel
Death’s End, by Liu Cixin:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0765377101?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_2&storeType=ebooks
Timestamps:
3:24 Interview Starts
15:49 Cactus' Experience with High Math People
19:49 High School Sports
21:26 Comparison to Intelligence
26:29 Is Lack of Understanding due to Denial or Ignorance?
29:29 The Past and Present of Selection in Academia
37:02 How Universities Look from the Inside
44:19 Informal Networks Replacing Credentials
48:37 Capture of Research Positions
50:24 Progressivism as Demagoguery Against the Self-Made
55:31 Innumeracy is Common
1:06:53 Understanding Innumerate People
1:13:53 Skill Alignment at Cactus' High School
1:18:12 Free Speech in Academia
1:21:00 You Shouldn't Fire Exceptional People
1:23:03 The Anti-Excellence Progressives
1:28:42 Rawls, Nozick, and Technology
1:34:00 Freedom = Variance = Inequality
1:37:58 Dating Apps
1:41:27 Jumping Into Social Problems From a Technical Background
1:41:50 Steve's High School Pranks
1:46:43 996 and Cactus' High School
1:50:26 The Vietnam War and Social Change
1:53:07 Are Podcasts the Future?
1:59:37 The Power of New Things
2:02:56 The Birth of Twitter
2:07:27 Selection Creates Quality
2:10:21 Incentives of University Departments
2:16:29 Woke Bureaucrats
2:27:59 Building a New University
2:30:42 What needs more order?
2:31:56 What needs more chaos?
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Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of EM, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.
The audio essay of this show discusses the nature and enemies of “common sense” economic progress, as well as the cost-benefit analysis of going after said enemies.
The topics discussed include prediction markets, market manipulation, game theory, global conformity, the timeline and strength of “wokeness”, innovation, internal selection, self-deception, hidden motives, and opportunities for young innovators.
Robin Hanson’s website:
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html
https://twitter.com/robinhanson
Opening Twitter poll:
The Elephant in the Brain:
https://www.amazon.ca/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyday/dp/0190495995
The Age of Em:
https://www.amazon.ca/Age-Em-Work-Robots-Earth/dp/1536619590
Pew Research Poll
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
Timestamps:
2:27 Audio essay
9:43 Interview Starts
15:55 How People (Don't) Prioritize
22:47 Academia vs. Industry Science
24:39 Prediction Markets
31:27 Manipulating the Market
49:14 Working with DARPA
55:01 Polymarket Ban
58:00 Regulatory Environment of Futures
1:06:03 Why Aren't Prediction Markets More Popular?
1:15:02 Self-Deception
1:29:24 Why People Have Conversations
1:33:33 Institutions
1:41:19 Why Do Institutions Rot?
1:44:57 Midwits and the Bozo Explosion
1:47:57 The World Mob
2:01:38 Global Homogenization
2:04:24 The Threat of Populism vs. Elitism
2:13:32 The Peak of Wokeness
2:18:51 Creating Competition
2:23:52 Young Contrarians
2:27:23 Outro
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